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The name of ancient peoples of Italy indicates those populations settled in the Italian peninsula during the Iron Age and before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. Many of the names are either scholarly inventions or exonyms assigned by the ancient writers of works in ancient Greek and Latin .
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. This list of ancient peoples living in Italy summarises the many different Italian populations that existed in antiquity.
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion in Italy. The Roman Empire at its greatest extent, 117 AD The ancient peoples of Italy are broadly referred to in historiography as Italic peoples , although in modern linguistics this term is used to define only the speakers of the Italic languages , namely the Latino ...
In October 1922, Mussolini took advantage of a general strike to announce his demands to the Italian government to give the Fascist Party political power or face a coup. With no immediate response, a group of 30,000 Fascists began a long trek across Italy to Rome (the March on Rome), claiming that Fascists were intending to restore law and order.
According to Strabo's Geographica, before the expansion of the Roman Republic, the name was used by Greeks to indicate the land between the strait of Messina and the line connecting the gulf of Salerno and gulf of Taranto (corresponding roughly to the current region of Calabria); later the term was extended by Romans to include the Italian ...
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. The Latins (Latin: Latinus (m.), Latina (f.), Latini (m. pl.)), sometimes known as the Latials [1] or Latians, were an Italic tribe that included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome (see Roman people).
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. The Italics were an ethnolinguistic group who are identified by their use of the Italic languages, which form one of the branches of Indo-European languages.
Roman conquest of Britain: Roman forces entered modern Scotland. AD 73: 16 April: Siege of Masada: Roman forces breached the walls of Masada, a mountain fortress held by the Jewish extremist sect the Sicarii. AD 77: Gnaeus Julius Agricola was appointed consul and governor of Britain. AD 79: 23 June: Vespasian died. He was succeeded by his son ...